Michael D. Swartz

The Mechanics of Providence

The Workings of Ancient Jewish Magic and Mysticism
[Die Mechanismen der Vorsehung. Die Abläufe antiker jüdischer Magie und Mystik.]
2018. XVI, 333 pages.
DOI 10.1628/978-3-16-156682-0
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Summary
What effect did the phenomena we call magic and mysticism have on the shaping of Judaism in late antiquity? Michael D. Swartz offers a wide-ranging study of the purposes, world-views, ritual dynamics, literary forms, and social settings of ancient Jewish magic and mysticism and their function in religion and history.

Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism (TSAJ)